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Health Care Science

John Wiley and Sons Inc · United States · Est. 2022

ISSN2771-1749eISSN2771-1757

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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High Trust

PubScope credibility score from verifiable indexing & ethics signals

Score Breakdown

◆ Scopus Q178

✓ Corroboration (3 more)+18

Total96

Third-party records · how this is calculated · Report an error →

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

210

days submission → published

measured · last 16 articles · accept 105d

weeks to publish · journal-reported

Average · vs ~15 wk median

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

SJR Scorei

1.152

H-Indexi

CiteScore

View ↗

Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

Total Worksi

217

Total Citationsi

1,269

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.31

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Public aspects of medicine. Topics: healthcare management, health informatics, public health, healthcare evaluation, health economics, health policy

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2022

FrequencyBimonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications217

OA Since2021

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

Review Time~14 weeks

Acceptance Rate—

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoPMCCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/12 · 83%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley and Sons Inc

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2771-1749 / 2771-1757

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

Portico, PMC, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

213

2022

692

2023

488

2024

101

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

EpidemiologyQ1

Health PolicyQ1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Health Care Sciences & Services

Scopus Categories

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealth PolicyEpidemiology

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Healthcare Systems and ReformsArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationEducational Robotics and EngineeringMachine Learning in HealthcareHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeArtificial Intelligence in HealthcareChronic Disease Management StrategiesCOVID-19 and Mental Health

Frequently asked questions about Health Care Science

Is Health Care Science a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Health Care Science: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Its PubScope Trust Score is 96/100. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Health Care Science?

Health Care Science is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 3.31.

Is Health Care Science indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Health Care Science is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Health Care Science?